Thread: ham radio str8 net?

Technician only for awhile longer

K4SHL
Warsaw, Ky
73

Well I'm not into ham but I have a pretty good shortwave rig so I'll be evesdropping on you guys on the sideband.

cool half to get a few onboard first and find a good clear frequency.

I found my call sign. Tony maybe one of these days I can have you show me what I am supposed to do with it
KE5HXP

im just getting into ham radio. i havnt taken my test yet but im reading and studying. i am even attempting to learn morse code. when i was a kid i remember my grandpas ham radio station. i always thought it was the coolest thing around. i really miss him and thought i would see what it was all about.

I'd love to jump in but my HF dipole is down. KG7AR

Just saw this thread.Know nothing about ham Radio but have a fun story to tell.
My father in law was a very active Ham in Sacto Calif W6JBA,I think he got his license in the 1930s.I used to watch him for hrs work his radio,was amazed that he could talk to people all over the world with his homemade equip. (Halicrafters?)
At any rate these guys would send postcards every time they contacted someone new, he had thousands of them.
He worked for the calif CHP and his minor claim to fame was outfitting the first Sqaud car in the state with ham radios.
Wife remembers them working late at night in the garage putting all this equip in a big old 54 Buick roadmaster black and white.
Attennas to him were sort of like razors and hones to us,every time we came to visit was some new thing on the roof of the house or on the back lawn,cannot tell you how many of those things I helped him put up and take down.
I still have his Key,do they still use them? was great times.

Count me in if we can do it on 20 meters. I only have a 20-and 10-meter fan diplole.
Ed/KN9V

I've been in Tonga for years (A35RK) and recently returned to the States, but I hope to get on the air
soon from here in California. I have the rigs, but no antenna yet.

Please keep us posted on the status of the Str8Net.

73,
Paul, KK6H

K4CAW here, 73s!